"What do you bring with you this day? A beautiful image of what the Armed Forces do and the dream of being part of it one day ".
These are the words with which a student answered the question of Minister Elisabetta Trenta at the end of the conference that took place this morning in the Financial Police School of the Guardia di Finanza in Ostia.
An initiative born with the aim of making known to young people the meaning of the November 4, even on the occasion of an important anniversary: the Centenary of the end of the Great War.
An event - moderated by the journalist Elisa Calessi to which the Chief of Defense Staff took part, General Claudio Graziano, and the leaders of the Armed Forces - which opens the cycle of conferences that will take place throughout Italy.
Starting tomorrow, personnel from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Carabinieri will go to the schools of 28 Italian cities to talk about the November 4 and the importance of national unity.
"National unity goes beyond borders, has a deeper meaning, means absence of internal divisions"said Minister Trenta who then added:"Unity is not a closure to others, but to be as strong as a country to be able to face what happens every day".
"All of us who have institutional responsibilities - has explained - we do it for today but above all for the future. Our first employers are young people ".
"The future is built knowing the story. The reasons for what happened in the past need to be explored to understand how to make the future better ".
During the conference a short piece of the documentary "Soldati d'Italia" was presented and will be presented next week at the Rome Film Festival. In the hall also some of the protagonists who told their life experience with the stars.
To tell his experience, also the ten. with the. Gianfranco Paglia, captain of the Paralympic Sports Group of the Defense that in these days is in Sydney for the fourth edition of the Invictus Games.
This is, in short, the opportunity to talk about how much defense men and women do for the community, both at home and abroad. A work done daily well summarized by the claim of the poster for the November 4: Our Forces, armed with pride and humanity.